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Faceted Navigation and Guided Search Explained: A Description of the New Face of Search for Libraries
Speaking Notes from a Tech Talks Presentation by Mark Phillips, July 26, 2006
Facet
Grouping of concepts of the same inherent type, for example, processes, disciplines, people, materials, places, and times.
"Four independent categories [facets] of 10 nodes each can have the same
discriminatory power as one hierarchy of 10,000 nodes."
-Joseph Busch,
Taxonomy Strategies
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About the Author: Librarian Mark Phillips is head of the UNT Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.